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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

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Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
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Marriage Rule Wife
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
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Children Pain Pleasure
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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Age Solitude Soul
People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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Future Live People Wasted Time Worry
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
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Follow Lesson Peace Taste
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.
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People Praise Season Swallow
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
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Attention Best Innocence Live Pay Safety Talk Way World
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
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Ancestor People Present
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
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Fortune Friendship Goodness Greatness Possession
The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
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Appearance Attack Effect Laughter People Vice Way
It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
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Love Season Thinking
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.
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Cook Food Himself World
But it is not reason that governs love.
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Government Love Reason
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
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Annoy Change Husband Law Woman

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